Join Albertine bookshop on a monthly journey through French literature!
We are thrilled to announce the return of the Albertine Book Club, curated by French author Cécile David-Weill and American author and professor Caroline Weber. This monthly escape from your daily routine with books, friends, and French wine will keep you up to date with the best of contemporary French fiction and expand your horizons.

This year, director Agnès Varda became the oldest Academy Award nominee in history when her documentary, Face Places, about street artist JR, was nominated in Best Documentary Feature category this year. This is just one of the many reasons that Varda is one of––if not THE––coolest Oscar nominee of all time. More thoughts below.

Every spring we look forward to the celebration of the Semaine de la langue française et de la Francophonie (French Language and Francophonie Week), coming up in March. On this occasion this year, the Education Department of the French Embassy in the U.S. is launching a competition between U.S. schools, inspired by the initiative Mon idée pour le français (my idea for French).

Laurent Coq and Walter Smith III have been supported by the French-American Jazz Exchange (FAJE) in 2015.
Read more about their feedback, their collaboration and the creation of their album.
Name of band or ensemble: Laurent Coq & Walter Smith III
Names of collaborators: Laurent Coq, Walter Smith III, Joe Sanders, Damion Reid
Name of interviewee: Laurent Coq
Name of album: The Lafayette Suite
Year of release: 2015
FAJE: How did you meet?

We are pleased to present to you French-American Academic Exchanges (FAAX), a user-friendly tool to find a partner for an exchange program/partnership with a French school or university. Any staff member working for or representing a secondary or higher education establishment can sign up, create a profile page and consult the directory of institutions that are looking for a partner either in the U.S. or in France.

Karim Moussaoui’s brilliant debut tells three, loosely related, stories set in a contemporary Algeria of abandoned construction sites, desert roads, and hospitals: a middle-aged businessman witnesses a brutal beating and fails to intervene; a young woman’s father asks her former boyfriend to drive her to her wedding; a hardworking neurosurgeon is asked to adopt the son of a woman whose gang rape he witnessed during the civil war. Weaving these Chekovian tales together in a seamless three-part structure, Moussaoui reflects upon his country’s past, present, and future. He sketches in the challenges faced by several generations of Algerians while evoking universal moral dilemmas and disappointment.